Scoil: Corbally, Roscrea (uimhir rolla 7736)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Famine Years in Roscrea (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

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   kept many a person alive. Never was a person turned away without something to eat. My grandfather knew a man who went to Clonan House to get something for his children. They gave him food for himself, as well as for his children. On his way home he had to cross over a gate. It was late at night. Next morning he was found dead, leaning on the gate, with the bread in his hand. There is another story told of how a woman living in Carrick had many small children. They were very hungry. To quieten them she washed a pot of stones , and put them down to boil.When she raised the lid off the pot, it was a pot of potatoes she had.
   During Black '47 a local landlord had ten acres of turnips sowed. The neighbouring people used to steal the turnips to eat. The landlord built two huts, one at each end of the fieldin which stewards used to stay at night, so that no one would steal the turnips. But the stewards would let the

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   Topaicí

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Eibhlín Ní Riain

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   15

   Seoladh

   The Sheehys, Co. Tipperary

   Faisnéiseoir

   Denis Ryan

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   90